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Starting strong Aggies defeat Duke No. 6 with record high score, 92-77 Game stats Texas A&M Danielle Adams: 24 points, 5 rebounds Tanisha Smith: 19 points, 6 rebonds, 5 assists. Sydney Colson: 17 points, 4 rebounds, 10 assists. Duke Jasmine Thomas: 26 points, 9 rebounds. Allison Vernerey: 11 points, 7 rebounds
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Texas A&M junior point guard Sydney Colson goes up for a shot in the Aggies’ 95-77 victory against No. 6 Duke.
Michael Teague The Battalion The No. 16 Texas A&M women’s basketball team started the 2009-2010 regular season Sunday at Reed Arena with a 95-77 upset of No. 6 Duke. “Our kids were hooked up,” said Texas A&M Head Coach Gary Blair. “They played well and to have an NCAA playoff game as your first game of the year says a lot about our commitment to playing the best teams. We’re going to try to keep our schedule upgraded and hopefully we’ll be able to get the Tennessees, Connecticuts and Stanfords in here as well. If we say we’re the best, you have to go out there and play the best.” Junior center Danielle Adams gave a strong performance in her A&M debut. The junior scored a team-high 24 points including three 3-pointers. “I feel real happy,” Adams said. “We were up against a re-
Fraternities raise money for Fort Hood victim families Ann Littmann The Battalion The Interfraternity Council organized a golf tournament at the Briarcrest Country Club in Bryan Sunday to benefit the Fort Hood shooting victims’ families. From 8:30 a.m. — 2:30 p.m., 26 teams competed in the traditional “two-man scramble” tournament. The teams included members from various fraternities united in support of American troops. “It was a way for fraternity men to give their support to the families of those injured at Fort Hood,” said the council’s Vice President of Public Relations Ben Peterson. “In addition, numerous sponsorships were obtained and players had the opportunity to win items like a Texas A&M Tag Heuer watch from David Gardner and a custom suit from
JoS. A. Bank.” The participation fee was $60 per person and included 18 holes, a golf cart and a T-shirt. In the past, the council has presented the revenue generated from the tournament to the Still Creek Boys and Girls Ranch in Bryan, Texas. However, the tragedy at Fort Hood deeply touched the members, Peterson said. “The Interfraternity Council was initially going to donate the proceeds of the tournament to the Still Creek Boys and Girls Ranch,” he said. “But after hearing about the tragedy at Fort Hood, we knew that it was a cause that we’d like to put our energy into. “After much research, Spencer Hough, vice president of Interfraternal Relations for IFC and organizer of the See Fort Hood benefit on page 2
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Senior finance major Spencer Hough and senior economics major Logan Campbell present a representative from Operation Home Front with a check Sunday at the Briarcrest Country Club to support families of the Fort Hood shooting victims.
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Camels steal the show Saturday at the Brazos Valley Worldfest at Wolf Pen Creek Park.
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Third annual Worldfest draws the world closer
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ally good team at No. 6 in the country. The atmosphere was great. I’ve never seen anything like it playing in junior college. It was different and I enjoyed it.” Adams transferred to A&M from Jefferson Junior College where she was named the 2009 Women’s Coaches’ Basketball Association National Junior College Player of the Year. Despite the vast difference in her opponents’ talent, the twotime junior college All-American continued her success against perennial power Duke. “She just knows how to play the game,” Blair said. “How many kids at that level can come from junior college and understand the game? This is a kid who should have been playing D-I two years ago and now we’re reaping the benefits. Danielle Adams is going to be a force.” Duke failed to find an answer to the Aggies’ powerful
The delectable smells of mouthwatering food permeated the air as students and families flocked to the colored booths in Wolf Pen Creek Park Saturday for the third annual celebration of international awareness known as Worldfest. Worldfest commemorated international appreciation with cultural displays, demonstrations, international cuisine, performances, children’s crafts, educational competitions and many other activities. The event presented more than 45 cultural displays this year in addition to the other festivities. “We love learning about other cultures and we wanted to see MSC Committee for the Awareness of Mexican-American Culture,” said mother of three, Raye Leigh Stone. “It’s a beautiful day
filled with beautiful cultures, and it’s a great time with the kids.” The mission of Worldfest is to promote and celebrate the international diversity and heritage of the Brazos Valley. Texas A&M University and the city of College Station are in charge of organizing the community-wide festival. Texas A&M and its many planning partners began working on the U.S. Department of Education International Education Week in 2005. By 2007, the events of International Education Week eventually expanded to the first Brazos Valley Worldfest on Nov. 17, 2007, in historic downtown Bryan. Awareness of other cultures is a concept Stone said she tries to pass on to her children.
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